The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its MMAE 593 seminar series featuring guest speaker Francesco Panerai, assistant professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Panerai will present “Insights into Carbon Ablation Mechanisms from X-Ray Imaging and Plasma Wind Tunnel Experiments.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, February 11, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in Room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its MMAE 593 seminar series featuring guest speaker Nikhil Chandra Admal, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Admal will present “Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Crystal Interfaces.” This event is open to the public and will take place on March 25, 2026, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in Room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering MMAE 593 Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Kapil Chauhan, Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. Chauhan will present “Higher Order Moments of Scalar Within a Plume in a Turbulent Boundary Layer.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, October 29, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in Stuart Building, room 104.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering welcomes Sai Simon, PhD Candidate. As an extension of his PhD Thesis Defense, Simon will present “Flight Control of Tailless Aircraft with Active Flow Control.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, November 12, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in Stuart Building, room 104.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Dennis Kochmann, professor of Mechanics and Materials, and Department Head of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zürich. Kochmann will present “Modeling and Design of Architected Materials.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, January 28, from 12:45-1:45 p.m. in Room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the MMAE 593 Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Sheryl Grace, Head of the Unsteady Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics Lab at Boston University. Professor Grace will present “Modeling of Multirotor Vehicle Performance and Noise.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Thursday, November 20, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 108 of Perlstein Hall

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its fall 2025 seminar series featuring guest speaker Myoungkyu Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston, who will present “Inverse Energy Transfer in Wall-Bounded Turbulence: Insights from Direct Numerical Simulations.” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, October 8, from 12:45–1:45 p.m in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series featuring guest speaker Bharath Ganapathisubramani, professor of experimental fluid mechanics in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Southampton, who will present “Vortex Dominated Flows: Can’t Live with Them…Can’t Live Without Them…” This event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, December 3, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its fall 2025 seminar series featuring Samuel Grauer, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, who will present “What Can Particle Tracks Tell Us About Turbulence?” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, October 1, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents its fall 2025 seminar series featuring Debolina Dasgupta, Senior Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, who will present “Accelerating Next-Generation Technologies for Transportation, Electric Power and Industrial Applications.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, September 24, from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in room 104 of the Stuart Building.

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